Jeffrey Blehar of National Review Online pans progressives’ latest questionable plan.
[M]y political advice for you as always is go toward the light; gazing into the shadows soon enough leads to madness. This of course is why I’m thrilled to see Democrats embracing their newest rebel political orientation in this befuddled age of renascent Trumpism: “dark woke.”
That’s right, kiddies: The progressives are now up at nights, brooding blackly upon just how woke they are. They’ve taken too many punches from the alt-right. They’ve watched their heroes like Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush go down in flames — to other Democrats, no less. And now they’re taking names, not prisoners. They don’t have time for your guff! And you know this is a real thing because the New York Times has just written about it lovingly:
As liberals try to get their groove back, some party insiders say Democratic politicians have been encouraged to embrace a new form of combative rhetoric aimed at winning back voters who have responded to President Trump’s no-holds-barred version of politics.
It’s an attempt to step outside the bounds of the political correctness that Republicans have accused Democrats of establishing. And it requires being crass but discerning, rude but only to a point.
Online, it has a name: “Dark woke.”
In other words, it’s time for Democrats to match Marjorie Taylor Greene in the classlessness sweepstakes. …
… The Times is in love with these sorts of pieces because the paper — while run at the top by an old and entrenched editorship — flows with the blood of progressivism in the veins of its reportorial and writing staff. Those who have lived long enough to see the youth zeitgeist shift from progressive to reactionary are currently in the midst of a deep generational panic (as well they ought to be), desperate to feature stories telling a different tale: that there remains progressive fight-back among the “influencers” who now dominate the political world of the youngest voting cohort.
